tartans and plaids part 3

I think I may have a problem...

Compliments to Vain and Vapid for finding it.

Blogger Sucks...

I am trying to post but Blogger is thwarting me. I am giving up for now.

invisible menorah: your doing it wrong

So I am a bad Jew. I don't own a menorah so i improved and made this decontructionist post modern one. The shamash burned out ok but candle #1 did not. Bryson looked at it strangely and I asked him if it looked ok and he said yeah. i told him if it didn't it was ok to just put it out. Well...I burned a nice hole in my countertop.

Has anyone bought fray check lately?

I recently bought some and then found this bottle in my sewing box and was like "Oh man! I already had some!" Umm...then i looked at this bottle. It is empty or dried out and the label says (c) 1985. yea. musta been a bottle i stole from my mom like 10 years ago. I never use fray check that much. Just like I never use pinking shears that much. The new bottle looks much different. It was just funny and I thought i would share. Vintage fray check who knew?

Does Education Kill Creativity?

Really great video about education v. Creativity, the "invention" of ADHD, and the story of Gillian Lynne...and funny too!

more plaid

So last night I went to see Hubbard Street Dance's winter series with my friend Katie. They performed a new piece, Walking Mad, that we just finished building costumes for. craziness. we got the final casting like 2 weeks ago. That's 18 dancers clothed with items all built in the shop within a fortnight. It was a good piece though. i still don't understand the peplums on the men's pants but the schmate dresses looked better than I thought they would. i wore plaid. and 2 pairs of tights and leggings. there was so much on my legs that I forgot I was wearing a skirt.

Katie had dyed her hair dark brown like mine and we were going to take a twins picture but she has already started stripping her hair to get it back to her natural color. Anyway before the show last night we went to Sally's beauty supply so she could buy more bleach and some dye. Its kinda fun to play around with the colors. i found one called light drabber, its gray. i want to dye my hair gray. I know I am weird. I would love just a little steak of it somewhere. i would look like Rogue. It would be a tremendous amount of upkeep and I am lazy. I also love red hair. more on the orange-y side than the burgundy side but i don't have the coloring for that as my Aunt ida would have told me. I do want to cut my hair again though. Have thicker bangs and somewhere around chin/jaw length. kinda like 60's vidal sassoon meets clara bow. My hair is just so much in the way and it always looks bad in the winter. my hat doesn't stay on my head because it is so thick in addition to my scarf. and it has to be down to even wear my hat so it is all in my face if it is windy, like today, and it gets pulled by my bag and it gets all static-y.uggh.
in good news i got to randomly talk to my friend Benny on skype the other day. He is currently learning to snowboard in Japan and was supposed to move on to Thailand in like 2 weeks but there is a lot of political upheaval there right now and going there may not be the best idea ever had. he talked to our friend Amelia, who is currently in London, and he may go there in April. He tried to talk me into going too since it is halfway between the 2 of us and I would love to go but i don't think I can afford it if i wan tot make it to Israel this year at all... but I have been dying to see the Victoria and Albert museum and i have heard that the costume shop at the Globe sews everything by hand because that's how it was originally done. not sure if that is really true or not but I LOVE handsewing and if it is i would love to try and intern there or something.
Ok enough rambling.
I leave you with the almost finished 1st mitt that i needed 2 months ago. I am trying to think of a way to adapt them for wear in the bitterness that is the weather now.

winter=plaid

no. really. it does. I am obsessed with plaid right now. I really would like a red and green plaid 60's-70's style dress for the holidays. i found one at the vintage shop that was perfect, it was from sears but it was a bit too small and had no seam allowance so i couldn't let it out. i also had a dream last night about a red plaid dress. I will post a sketch next week when I am done with everything that i am doing and not being a crazy person. Major update at that time too. Sorry to have disappeared randomly.

Other things I am currently obsessed with:
the color gray
dark shades of plum and eggplant
legwear
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The drawings of Edward Gorey
Anything else with a victorian gothic feel
Traders Point Creamery
possibly chopping my hair into a 60's vidal sasson meets clara bow and lulu type bob
hating winter
setting up my sewing room (wall)
getting a bicycle
audiobooks
wanting to start pilates
baby knitting patterns (because I will be Aunt Amy in a little more than a month!!!)
learning Hebrew
Going back to Israel
Tea

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